An Australian researcher, is studying the possibility the infection of gonorrhoea can be spread by kissing.
At the STI and HIV World Conference in Vancouver on Thursday, Professor Kit Fairley from Monash University will be arguing his case in a debate with Professor Emeritus H. Hunter Handsfield from the University of Washington.
In Australia, gonorrhoea rates have more than tripled between 2008 and 2017 from 36 to 118.